3d chat environments

3d chat environments, they've been around for a pretty long time now, i remember seeing one almost 8 years ago, i think it might have been active worlds, but try running that on DIAL UP! and IM, that's been around for just as long, back when ICQ was popular, and also mIRC, which was also a was to set up basic servers for file sharing through ftp://ftp...but/ moving right along, back to the topic. i guess the major difference between the 2 are the users interface, instead of just a screen with text you have a virtual environment in which you can interact with, as well as being able to interact with the other users, i believe this makes the chat experience just that little bit more life like, allowing the user to get completely immersed in the virtual world. this also represents a very basic version of MMO's like world of warcraft or ultima online. It is much too easy to get addicted to these, if you have played wow for example, you know what i mean. You can pretty much do anything you can think of thats possible in the real world, shop, learn skills, cook, fish, hunt, leatherworking, pretty much everything, as well as things that are impossible, such as flyig etc...which definitly appeals to a lot of people out there, complete with ananomity. but with many IM programs out there now days, they allow for an almost real world chat, allowing for webcam plugins, mic etc... or if you prefer, just text based. straight to the point, just for chatting, allowing you to skip between that and say....writing a blog, or doing something else, it doesnt require as much attention.

honestly i don't mind either option, the 3d environment is like a game, and is pretty fun, whilst Msn etc.... is good for just talking, and the ability to share files, makes it very handy.

Photo - Celebrity

Everybodys good friend, Mr George W Bush.

Photo - Uni Life

to me, this is uni life, without this glorious beverage, all hope would be lost, and i would need more than 4 hours sleep a night. sweet sweet coffee

Photo - high tech

dont know if anyone remembers this, but its a screenshot i took of the movie 'hackers' and how they portrayed a online database, and how they 'hacked' it. couldn't stop laughing personally. but im sure many people found it amazing and the effects where definitly 'high-tech' for its day lol. go C.G.I!

Photo - Summer

chose this one as it reminds me of the seemingly never ending beaches on moreton island

on which i spent a lot of my summers as a kid.

Photo - Australian

i think this one is pretty self explanatory, whats more australian than VB or xxxx?

Photo - Games

well i chose this particular image for the games topic as it brings back memories of the old 386, back when the 2d shooters were taking off with wolfenstien 3d, only the oldies in the course will know what im talking about..haha. rock on

week 6

in todays lecture we had a real quick rundown on a few topics, the history of the internet, and vitual reality and the screen age. now i already knew that it all began with ARPANET. and i knew the basics with ports, firewalls, etc... but funny enough, that little cartoon really helped piece it together, and it did it so simply.

the part which really caught my attention though was the virtual reality. the whole where do we draw the line between 'virtual' and 'reality' for now, true enough, there are no senses of touch or smell within a virtual world, but who's to say in the near future that won't be the case? true enough, interest in the public eye has seen virtual reality decline over the last few years, but i've no doubt that soon enough, it will rise again, it can have so many applications, military training, in fact....any training at all. i mean flight simulator is already a standerd for pilot training. there could be recreational uses also, what if you wanted to see what it was like to be on a beach in the bahamas, without having the time to fly there and take a holiday? virtual reality could give the user a quick escape. the main issue which surrounds this is that users may get addicted to their 'virtual' world, and not be quite so productive in the real world. though if we could figure out a way to take it in moderation, i think it would be great.

who knows, maybe in many years to come, we may be living in a world where being 'plugged in' like in the matrix, may be a completely normal thing to do lol